Device for hanging up clothes



Dec. 1, 1959 A. H. DEUCHER DEVICE FOR HANGING UP CLOTHES Filed June 7, 1955 Unitsd at Paten i 2,915,232 DEVICE FOR HANGING UP CLOTHES Adolf H. Deucher, Rapperswil, Switzerland Application June 7,1955, Serial No. 513,728

.Claims priority, application Switzerland June 12, 1954 2 Claims. (Cl. 22388) The present invention relates to a device mountable on a stationary or movable support for hanging up clothes, which consists' of two parts, one of which designed as hanger for jackets or the like, while the second serves for draping over garments, especially gents trousers.

Such devices are old in the form of hangers for jackets, coats or the like, whereby the ends of the hanger are interconnected by a bar or the like. Thereby that garment draped over the bar is located under the garment placed on the hanger, which has the following shortcomings:

.The clothes are hung up and removed in reverse impractical order as would correspond to' dressing and undressing. In the normal order of undressing it should be possible to hang up first the jacket and then the trousers in a freely accessible way and, when dressing again, it should be possible to remove first the trousers and then the jacket ina freely accessible manner in order to be able to dress unhindered. The aforesaid prior art hangers do not facilitate such suitable order of hanging up garments. Their use is consequently cumbersome and unhandy. Moreover, the trousers, to fold them over, must first be drawn between hanger and bar; they must first be folded together and consequently can only be properly hung up by an unhandy manipulation.

True, other hangers exist, in which the carrying bar can be mounted with its one end on a stationary support, while the other end of the bar has at least one hanger pivotally supported thereon. On the hanger, jackets, coats, etc. may be placed in the usual way, and trousers can be folded over the carrying bar. Those hangers, however, only serve for cleaning clothes in the open air, on balconies and the like, and not for hanging up or handling garments to keep them in cupboards, wardrobes, frames of shops, rooms and so on; they are consequently bulky, inasmuch as the hanger projects over the extremity of the comparatively long carrying bar. Those hangers further consist of several parts which constitute no firmly joined unit and are consequently also not practical and easy to handle and not portable either.

The present invention obviates the aforementioned drawbacks and defects of known hangers essentially in that the two parts of the hanger form a rigidly joined carrying unit, in which the part serving for draping over of clothes is located direct over the coat hanger, in order that each garment may be hung up and removed unhindered and independently of each other.

Further features of the invention will appear from the claims, the description and the drawing, in which latter some form of embodiment of the device are illustrated by pure way of example.

In said annexed drawing:

Fig. l is an elevational view of embodying a hanger in the form of a carrying unit of the invention;

Fig. 2 is a front elevational view of a hanger somewhat modified and suspended from a rod support.

Fig. 3 shows the hanger as swivelled through compared to that of Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is an end view of the hanger of Fig. 3.

In the embodiment shown in Figs. 1 to 4 the bar-like part 2 of the carrying unit is located directly above the garment or jacket hanger part 3. Both parts are freely accessible and independent of each other.

The part 2 of the hanger serves for draping over of clothes, such as gents trousers, while on the hanger section 3 a gents coat or a ladys jacket may be hung up.

According to the embodiment shown in Fig. 1, the member for holding the hanger 2, 3 onsupport 1 includes a plug 7 depending at right angles from one end of the bar 2 and fitting into the corresponding bore of a .sleeve 8 firmly mounted on the wall 1 by means of a dowel 9 removably insertable in the wall. A bayonet joint may be used for rotatably securing either the plug 7 or dowel 9.

In the form according to Fig. 1, the hanger is swivelable with the plug 7 in the sleeve 8, so that it may be swung against a wall when not in use.

The form according to Fig. 2 on the one hand, and Figs. 3 and 4 on the other hand show hangers for attachment to supports viz. on chairs, rods and other places, where the hanger may be placed on a support. Thus Fig.2 shows a hanger device with the horizontal bar 2 and the hanger 3, in which the member for holding the unit on a support is designed as hook or bulge having a recess 13 of a suspension arm. There the bar 2 merges at one end into the overlying suspension arm 14-which extends at least to the middle or vertical line 15 of the bar 2 and hanger 3, where the hook or bulge having a recess 13 is formed in order to make a detention zone near the terminal end of arm 14. The hanger 2, 3, 13, 14 may thereby be suspended from any suitable support, say, an inserted crossbar 16.

A free hook 19 may be provided in the middle of arm 14 or be formed of its material.

. In the example according to Figs. 3 and 4, the design of the hanger is such that the plane of the bar-like section or trousers supporting member 2 and the jacket suspension member 3 lies parallel to the support 17 which may have the form of the back of a chair. The extension or suspension arm 14 extends from part 2 first in the plane of member 2 and member 3. Towards the middle 15 the suspension arm 14 is given a bend of 90, at the end of which is formed'a hook 13. In this form the clothes consequently will be hung parallel to the support 17 whereby on the carrier unit, say, on arm 14, in a given case a special handle may be provided for conveniently taking hold of or hanging up the unit, or else the arm 14 itself may be designed as handle, by which the unit ma be handled with ease.

Also another hook 19 could be provided which extends parallel to the plane of the unit so'that the latter could be suspended both from cupboard edges as Well as from rods.

Instead of having only a single holding member for a support, it is readily possible to provide several in one and the same hanger as indicated in Fig. 1. There the holding member consists of the plug 7 for insertion into the sleeve 8 of the bracket 9. As further holding member a suspension arm 14 (Figs. 2, 3 and 4) may additively be provided so that the hanger may selectively be used for resting on different kinds of supports.

In all forms of embodiment, on the bar 2 small hooks may be provided in spaced relation for hanging up petticoats.

Through the invention a device for hanging up garments is created which consists of a uniform unit and which for convenience of use is so provided and designed that the clothes are hung up in the normal order of undressing and can be taken ofi the hanger in the proper order of dressing, Le; in such a way that the single clothes can be hung-up and removed independently of each other in a freely accessible way without any hindrance. Thereby the device may selectively be mounted on and removed with case from suitable-supports of different kinds. Supports of the stationary type (such as walls, cupboards, rigidly arranged rods) orof themovable type (such as chair, portable clothes stands and so on) may be provided in bathrooms, on balconies, in sleeping rooms, etc. Also in motor-ca-rs such hangers may be practical on corresponding supports.

-As indicated in particular in Fig. 2 the point of gravity lies in the vertical plane of the center line 15 passing through suspension member 3 and supporting member 2, the carrier unit thus formed which is non-symmetrical due to suspension arm 14 or :18, is balanced in its horizontal position when suspended.

Various changes andmodifications may be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention and it is intended that such obvious changes and modifications be-embraced by the annexed claims.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new and desired tobe secured by Letters Patent is:

" 1. Agarment hanger-device forming a carrier unit; comprising a jacket suspension member, a substantially horizontal trousers supporting member provided with two ends and being located above and centrally connected to said jacket suspension-member, a suspension arm above said trousers supporting member and extending from one of said ends of said trousers supporting member, said supporting member being provided with an upwardly directed extension on its other end, at least a portion of said suspension arm being horizontal for draping garments thereover, saidsuspension arm being located in spaced relation to said trousers supporting member and terminating in a bulge located approximately centrally of said carrier unit and provided with a downwardly open recess, said recess beingengageable over a support, and a hook member Eli fully loaded with garments may be engaged by said recess over said support or may be suspended from said hook member.

2. A garment hanger device forming a carrier unit; comprising a jacket suspension member, a substantially horizontal trousers supporting member provided with two ends and, located above and centrally connected to said jacket suspension member, a suspension arm above said trousers supporting member and extending from one of said ends of said trousers supporting member, said trousers supporting'member having at one end thereof and integrally formed therewith a plug adapted to be swivelly mounted in a sleeve of a bracket, the other end of said trousers supporting member being upwardly curved, at least a portion of said suspension arm being horizontal for draping garments thereover, said suspension arm being located in spaced relation to said trousers supporting member and terminating in a bulge located approximately centrally of said carrier unit and provided with a downwardly open recess, said recess of said bulge being engageable over a support so as to retain said unit on said support, and a hook member mounted on said bulge, whereby said carrier unit while fully loaded with garments may be engaged by said recess over said support, may be suspended from said bracket, or may be suspended from said hook member.

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